Consolidation & Virtualisation

The advantages of Consolidation and Virtualisation are obvious

 Cost savings with better ROI

 Higher levels of Audit and Compliance

 A technology refresh extends the server life to support the application

 
Lower maintenance costs

Lower environmental costs and Eco Friendly, in the form of space, power and cooling

 

 There are many Levels of Consolidation

Consolidation typically consists of one or more of the following:

Technology refresh

Proven cost savings replacing old, high maintenance servers with newer, cheaper hardware. Cost savings usual within 12 to 18 months!

Hidden cost savings include Space, Power, Cooling, Availability and Manageability

Introduction of emerging commodity based hardware, reducing CapEx and OpEx through purchasing power and common support with Wintel teams

Consolidation within a Business Unit

Consolidate many-to-one older low utilisation and/or low spec servers to new hardware, within a business segment

Enables segment to retain capital investment, without issues of cross-segment charging

Smart Consolidation across segments

Consolidate many-to-one older low utilisation and/or low spec servers to new hardware, across business segments

Cross charging more complex but overall better return on capital investment

Provides service based infrastructure and services, such as Web, App and DB environments

Consolidation in a Virtual Environment

The ultimate consolidation platform, for maximum space saving and performance utilisation

New Technologies, using Solaris Containers and VMware ESX server offer increased savings while improving manageability, capability and flexibility

Case Study!

Here is a quick Case Study of a consolidation project run in 2006

Solaris technology Refresh required. 78% of equipment End of Life

Migrate from old datacentre to new datacentre

Replace of End of Life system with standard/certified system

Box for Box replacement, no sharing of OS or network resources

Utilise New CPU speed improvement

Conclusion:

Consolidation 51 racks to 8 racks – a massive saving of 43 racks!

Greater platform longevity, lower maintenance costs and alignment with virtualisation strategy

ROI within 18 months!